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Swammerdam's story - quoted from Bevan 159 Thorley: The Fem. Mon. 160 John Burroughs: Locusts and Wild Honey. Pastoral 162 Bees • Bear-traps - Menzel: Myth. Forsch 168 Huish: Bees. 168 American king-bird - Bevan 170 "Attic maiden" - Merivale's Trans. 170 Honey-bird of East Indies and Africa - Cuculus indicator 170 "Shirach very gravely" - Kirby and Spence Mexicans, Hottentots, Negroes of Guiana eat bees - Menzel: Myth. Forsch. 173 174 California 177 182 - 182 "Humming moths" - John Muir: Mountains of Bevan.

Rosemary honey in Narbonne Balm of Pontus - Menzel: Myth. Forsch.

Sealed cans or bottles of honey bearing the mark of the apiary whence the honey came can be relied upon.

Pure honey after standing awhile has a tendency to granulate, and this, which is a sign of its purity, is by some mistakenly supposed to be a sign of adulteration, and glucose honey, which does not granulate, is therefore preferred by those ignorant of this characteristic of honey • 186 The adulteration of honey is an offence punishable by law. Glucose, according to Gleanings in Bee Culture, Mch. 15, 1897, can be very easily detected as follows: 187 "Add three spoonfuls of alcohol to one of the honey to be tested, stir vigorously for awhile, and then let the mixture stand for about fifteen minutes. If it then has a bluish milky cast, as if a very little milk had been mixed with a small quantity of water, glucose is present." Xenophon's Anabasis, bk. iv. ch. viii.

Strabo: Geog. of Greece, xii. 3 Poisonous honey near Philadelphia - see Bevan: The Honey Bee 188 Appendix "A party of young men" - Ibid.

List of poisonous plants in this country given by Dr. Barton Ibid.

The honey gathered from rhododendrons and laurels contains a narcotic poison which is to be treated medically as such It is probably because of the sticky surface of these flowers that hive-bees are not fond of them. The bumble-bee can free itself, but smaller bees are sometimes entangled and so meet their death. - " It has been a gross libel" - quoted by Bevan Gems and jumbles. Dr. J. C. Miller: Food Value of Honey Signs of the Rune calendar, drinking-horns, etc. - Tegner's Frithiof's Saga. Description of Ingeborg's Arm-ring PAGE 191 191 192 194 203 207 "He was a man in mind " - The Gododin from Henry Morley: English Writers, vol. i. 207 "The heroes marched" - Ibid.. 208 When Caradawg - Ibid.. - "Yndvwlch and Cyvwlch the Tall " Ibid. "My limbs are racked " Ibid. "Through Hrothgar's mind " - Beowulf: English Writers, i.. "Then she went round " - Ibid. - 208 209 209 "The Queen said " Ibid. "The bright warriors " Ibid. "Never have I heard" English Writers, vol. i. 210 210 210 211 211 "Then asked Gárigleri" - Sn. Edda, Gylfag., ch. 20, from Tegnér's Frithiof's Saga • "My mead-cup's flavor" - King Bele and Thorsten 211 Vikingsson. 212 "Went there at times " - Tegner's Frithiof's Saga, Canto iii. "What wilt thou?" Ibid., Canto iv. "The bright-faced Gudrun" - Corpus Poeticum Boreale. Appendix Gudbvand Vigfusson, M. A., and F. York Powell, PAGE M. A., vol. i. Atla Krida 213 • " I dreamed that two hawks" - Corpus Poeticum Boreale 214 "Adam drowned his ghost" - Legends of the Holy Rood, ed. Richard Morris, S. S. D. Dispute bet. Mary and the Cross, xvi.. 214 • "The fell Jews" - Ibid., xviii. 214 Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5. 167 215 Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2. 233 • 215 219 "There is a wine" - Pliny: Nat. Hist., bk. xv. ch. xx. The Hydromel of Æginata - Thos. Moffett: The. of Insects Galen's honeyed vinegar - Moffett "Aświns, men who" - Rig-Veda, 139.3 "When Aświns, you harness" - Rig-Veda, 157.2 "May the three-wheeled cart" - Rig-Veda, 157.3 "Bring us Aświns" - Rig-Veda, 157.4 "With those aids" - Rig-Veda, 112.21 • Honey was believed to come from the moon, hence the ref- 220 221 226 G 226 226 226 226 erence to the Aświns delivering honey to the bees. "When Maruts" - Rig-Veda, 87.2... 227 "He then seeks her mouth " - Grihya-Sûtra of Hiranyakesin, i. 7.24 227 "Let the father " "I administer" } Sankhayana-Grihya-Sutra, i. 24.34 "When a son " - Åsvalayana-Grihya-Sûtra, i. 15.1 "Such food" Ibid., xvi. 5. - "He pours cold water" - Sankhayana-Grihya-Sûtra, i. 28.8 "This branch " Ibid., iii. 2.5.6 A son was the dearest wish of the Hindu, as otherwise the proper sacrifices could not be performed at the father's death , and as honey is mythically connected with birth and the production of offspring, hence the invocation at the founding of a home. Cattle were the chief wealth of the ancient Hindus, 227 228 228 228 229 Appendix and the significance of the ever-fertile cow is sufficiently evident. "If the bees" - Ibid., v. 10.1.2.3 "What is the honied " (" I eat thee" '} PAGE 229 What is the honied Grihya-Sûtra of Hiranyakesin, 230 230 i. 4.13. "Having cooked " - Pâraskara-Grihya-Sûtra, ii. 16.2 The vow, at the cutting of the beard, to avoid honey - Khôdira-Grihya-Sûtra, ii. 5.11 It probably was true then, as at the present day, that honey was believed to be stimulating and heating in its effects, and therefore was not considered desirable food for students or for youths.

The bee at the heart of the lotus. The Indian Songs of Nagha, referred to by Menzel: Mythologische Forschungen Monographie der Biene The bee the symbol of love Where we find the bee in mythology we usually find it symbolical of the creative power, representing love, birth, and even the new birth, the resurrection into the higher life, as will appear more fully later.